http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41JmCCH7AQ3:48-4:04"According to Mr Daly Smith of Southern Baptist Ministries, people are leaving church/Church, feeling empty on Sundays. They are not lifted spiritually. Similar reports come from Europe and South America, where Church members are simply dropping out."

Is it 'church' (a building) or 'Church' (Christian religious body)? And is the verb 'to leave' used here to denote the action of going out of a church building on Sundays or to denote the action of ending one's membership in the Southern Baptist Church, the reason for that being this feeling empty on Sundays?

And one more thing.

The same video clip.4:16-4:20"I take what I want to out of the Bible and out of .........."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41JmCCH7AQ3:48-4:04"According to Mr Daly Smith of Southern Baptist Ministries, people are leaving church/Church, feeling empty on Sundays. They are not lifted spiritually. Similar reports come from Europe and South America, where Church members are simply dropping out."

Is it 'church' (a building) or 'Church' (Christian religious body)? And is the verb 'to leave' used here to denote the action of going out of a church building on Sundays or to denote the action of ending one's membership in the Southern Baptist Church, the reason for that being this feeling empty on Sundays?

And one more thing.

The same video clip.4:16-4:20"I take what I want to out of the Bible and out of .........."

What is the missing word? Is it actually "word" (of the Bible)?

The capitalization is not so clear cut, and idiosyncratic. In the quote the lower case would be definitely in the first instance, and probably the second (as the Baptists have a very vague notion of Church). In the sentence leaving means going out of the building, but I am sure he is phrasing it to echo what your second meaning is.

Altogether, he is giving the warning that both feel empty, and the implication that the Baptists will soon follow the Europeans in no longer going through the motions of Church.

"I take what I want to out of the Bible and out of I don't know what"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41JmCCH7AQ3:48-4:04"According to Mr Daly Smith of Southern Baptist Ministries, people are leaving church/Church, feeling empty on Sundays. They are not lifted spiritually. Similar reports come from Europe and South America, where Church members are simply dropping out."

Is it 'church' (a building) or 'Church' (Christian religious body)? And is the verb 'to leave' used here to denote the action of going out of a church building on Sundays or to denote the action of ending one's membership in the Southern Baptist Church, the reason for that being this feeling empty on Sundays?

And one more thing.

The same video clip.4:16-4:20"I take what I want to out of the Bible and out of .........."

What is the missing word? Is it actually "word" (of the Bible)?

Answer to question 1:

People are leaving church (with no article) on Sundays feeling empty: people are not satisfied with the way their church worships on Sundays.

Answer to question 2:

I am not sure, but most probably he says "out of the WORLD". What he says sounds similar to "word", but this would make his statement redundant as he already uses the word "Bible" in the sense of the word of God in the first part of his sentence.

Correction! I was wrong! That guy with a pompous accent uses a redundant statement!

"I take what I want to out of the Bible and out of the WORD, and I pray on my own, and I just don't really feel that I need one man or pastor or priest - to give me that WORD. I think it's my relationship with God and my relationship with Christ, and you know no man I feel has one WORD to say about it"

The words spoken are: "as in years gone by", which is the same as saying "as in the past". In other words, the speaker is commenting on the fact that Orthodox doctrine, worship and church order (which is a better word than "government", as it does not have the obvious secular meaning) does not change "with the times", but is constant and timeless. He is contrasting the truth, stability and integrity of Orthodoxy with those denominations and sects which feel that the Christian "message" and "doctrine" must be "updated" to suit modern times.